December 7 – Community.
Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011?
(Author: Cali Harris)
2010 - I like the idea of academia and the community of it. Smart people getting together and thinking and talking about stuff. I took an English Comp class with a fantastic professor, author and poet Karen Schubert (Google her and the poem Wisconsin). The class read profile "The Solist" by Steve Lopez. Over the semester it sparked really interesting discussions about rhetoric, media, government, poverty, mental health and lots of big questions. All of this was done sans-rhetoric at the insistence of the professor and the discussions were really invigorating and thoughtful. It gave me hope for mankind seeing with such little prodding how much intelligence was in the minds of these young people.
Sam's advice: Think! And read! Maybe even more that listen and observe do some frigging thinking before we are all peasants again! Quit letting Glenn Beck and any other puppet for the greedy do your thinking for you! Read!
Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011?
(Author: Cali Harris)
2010 - I like the idea of academia and the community of it. Smart people getting together and thinking and talking about stuff. I took an English Comp class with a fantastic professor, author and poet Karen Schubert (Google her and the poem Wisconsin). The class read profile "The Solist" by Steve Lopez. Over the semester it sparked really interesting discussions about rhetoric, media, government, poverty, mental health and lots of big questions. All of this was done sans-rhetoric at the insistence of the professor and the discussions were really invigorating and thoughtful. It gave me hope for mankind seeing with such little prodding how much intelligence was in the minds of these young people.
Sam's advice: Think! And read! Maybe even more that listen and observe do some frigging thinking before we are all peasants again! Quit letting Glenn Beck and any other puppet for the greedy do your thinking for you! Read!
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